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With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
Here they are working out across Roger Williams Ave. as they pull and spot the five stub ended tracks inside the facility. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
Leased, or even owned, by the Texas & Oklahoma RR, this "GN" (originally Frisco) MP15DC switcher rests just north of I-20. October 2020.
... from workweek to weekend - TGIF !
African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)
Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa
A little flashback Friday, to a pre-Hunter Harrison CP, when they still ran some switchers in Muskego Yard.
CP 1447
The Landisville Railroad's SW900M prepares to gather outbound cars for the NS interchange a couple of miles to the north. Despite the Chessie-inspired livery, this is a former Lehigh Valley engine by way of Conrail. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
Stave Lake Powerhouse, supplied power for many years, the area quickly outgrew it.
It is now a museum.
I have learned so much about processing images since this was taken! All I did really is change blend modes though!
\I rarely take HDR any more as my camera now has so much latitude. Ten GB before to 36 GB now!
It was an 9 image HDR, it was plenty garish!
This train of cars went back an forth across this road crossing 3 times on Friday afternoon rush hour as it navigated tracks.
A CSXT local switches Kayne Ave on March 9, 2019. The days of an end cab switcher on CSX are numbered.
© Eric T. Hendrickson 2019 All Rights Reserved
Way back in September 1998, Rich Barnett, Ken Putelis and myself set out on a 7 day trip to the midwest. It was just after the merger of the ATSF-BN into the "new" BNSF. Luckily we did well on weather the entire week, and we did well with matched pre-merger consists all across Illinois . We covered quite a bit in and around the greater Chicago area, give or take a 100 plus mile radius. My notes show us shooting about 15 different railroads, mostly now all fallen flags. Toward the end of our week, we were all ready to kill each other, however the sun stayed out and the action was plentiful as we made our way back east. After spending most of the day on the Wisconsin Central, and getting an SDL39 leading, we ventured down to Bensonville yard, just on the other side of O'Hare for rush hour. At the time, I didn't think much of this slide, as were concentrating on the parade of Metra F40C's and F40PH's. Here the west end switcher job with a pair of former MN&S SW1200's drag cuts of cars momentarily blocking our view of the mainline. Such cool stuff, hard to believe it was so long ago. September 1998.
A pair of Iowa Northern GP38s switch the yard in Mannly, Iowa seen here pulling through the car reader near Harris Street. It is weird to think that the Iowa Northern is now a fallen flag and gobbled up by the Canadian National.
Atlantic and Western GP10 #109 switches while RS1325 #30 idles and watches awaiting it's turn to get involved.
This is Mark.
Mark is the president of the Nevada Northern Railway - a national historic landmark in Ely, NV. The railroad Mark presides over is considered one of the most complete historic railways in the United States.
While Mark would never claim credit for the success of the NNRY, I'm here to tell you that so much of what you can experience today is only possible because of this man and his passion. It takes an army to keep this place running, but Mark is the spark at the center of it all.
That energy and enthusiasm is precisely what inspires me to volunteer my time and talents to the NNRY; I have no doubt other volunteers would say much the same.
This scene was taken in 2018 at the Photographer's Weekend, but it could just as easily have been 1918. Mark has checked the south switch of Keystone Wye and will soon direct NNRY #40 forward.
A lone ACWR SD40 switches out the facility in Midland on a cold February Night. The fog really adds to the scene here and its one of my favorite times to go out and shoot.
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
Local job AB10 has slid into Graces at Irondale, Alabama with their pair of SD40-2s and await further instructions for about ten minutes before the mission was aborted. Meanwhile that gave a chance to nab a few shots which were to include the old Southern Railway, Brosnan era maintenance limits sign otherwise known as a football sign. As the time dwindles down and just a minute before the crew heads back to the main, a passerby struts across completely oblivious to the soon to be in motion approximate
350 tons, of course I gladly wait. April 6, 2019
Pair of GP9R's switching in the Carolina Coastal yard in Wilson, NC. The units are about to cross Black Creek Rd.
Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
While I was waiting for the southbound Amtrak Talgo funeral train, Union Pacific sent this nice SD40N/Slug combo up the Brooklyn Yard lead. That's the Eastmoreland Golf Course across the tracks in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
CSX switching crew dismount to reset the switch after the train passes off the siding onto the main line preparing to head to Raleigh.
SFG Train 565-11 has cut away from the rest of the train and will shortly start working the Groupe-Lebel lumber mill in Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec.
The lumber mill is one of only a few customers on the Cascapedia Subdivision and ships outbound loads of lumber and woodchips.
Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie
Train: 565-11
12/11/2023
Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec
SFG Cascapedia Subdivision
The other day I was creating with some friends and was a bit lost in my own mind.
I started thinking of how creative my friends are, how creative this community is and how I'm so lucky to have a job and passion and life where I get to share very openly, the inner workings of my mind. The inside of who I am as a person through my work. I came up with this idea of my "inner workings" spinning away above my head, like a hamster on a wheel.
#thelightbulbproject_inside
Macro shot of a Hama Wireless Remote, unfortunately I forgot to remove the dust and noise so here it is “warts and all”.
Three yard goats help break out switches at the CHS elevator in Superior prior to BNSF delivering a cut of grain hoppers. The freeze/thaw cycle the past few days has really played havoc with switches.
After a meeting at Amersfoort I decided to drlve home via the Amsterdam Westhaven. There was some activity: I saw an RRF container train, the arrival of the Czech steel train, a switching TCS engine and Railpro 603.